River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-22

the 10th and sentenced 20 twenty-five
years imprisonment
The business portion of Mapleton, d. T..
was destroyed by an incendiary fire ON the
10th
A CoroRED man named William Aiken,
said to he 1ne hundred and thTss 49,
was maE~i,,d ON Llksui1 -
to Susan Wat Sio0W thirty
three yeG rs old
IN family quarrel ON the 10th at Ken
ton o.. Charles Thomas stabbed and killed
his niece, Miss Briggs, and fatally cut his
brothers wife.
The coal famine still continued in West
ern Kansas on the 26th, $l2 80 per ton be-
ing paid for an inferior quality, and very.
little TO be had at that price
GEORGE GREEN, a notorious cattle thief,
was lynehed near bennington, Fla, on the
10th
CHARLES BELLOWS was hanged at Charles
Waterman. This was the first execution in
the State since 1868
AT Columbus, Ark, Charles Whitsett.
half-witted boy. aged thirteen years ON the
10Th cut of the heads of his brother, ageG
nine years. and his sister, aged SIX years
The courthouse of Graves County, Nv,
at Mtyfield. was burned by an incendiary
IRE on the morning of the 18th. with all the
county records. Loss. $4,000
TEE death OF Hon. s p Rounds. editor
and principal proprietor Of the Omaha Re
pub lean. occurred in that city on the 18th,
of pneumonia, at the age OF fifty-nine
years Mr.. Rounds was Public Printer I'M
der President Arthur, was for many years a
resident of Chicago, and was well known
throughout the country.
DURINo the past year the total salt
product OF Michigan was 1914, 300 bar
rels, against q, OO7, 257 barrels in 1856.
OS the 18th the bodies of the Chicago
Anarchists, Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Engel
and Lingg. were inferred at Waldheim
Cemetery in the presence OF about two
thousand people
DURING the week ended on the 18th three
men were killed as a result of the feud be-
tween the Adams and Coswell factions in
Rock Castle County. Nv, and many were
wounded and several houses were burned.
The South Carolina Legislature on the
the 18th passed bill pensioning the Con-
federate soldiers
OS the 10th gas-pipe bomb was found
in tue Of the new opera-house building
at Marshalltown, Ia. II was taken by Off
GERS 10 the outskirts of the city, the fuse
lighted. and the explosion was terrific,
trees in the neighborhOod being reduced to
splinters
An oil well, with capacity of about one
thousand barrels daily, was struck while
digging for gas ON the 10th at Marion, Ind
The Supreme Court of Missouri ON the
19.h decided the Local-Option law consti-
tutional. The law is exceedingly severe,
amounting to prohibition
NEAR Lexington, KY, wagon containing
two men and two women was struck by
train on the 10Th, and the four persons
were killed.
THROUGHOUT the Northwest a blizzard,
accompanied by a very heavy fall of snow,
prevailed on the 10Th
DISPATCHES of the 10th say that several
persons were killed and others were in
iured by cyclone which passed through
portions of Indian Territory and Arkansas,
and large amount of property was de-
stroyed
FIVE men were instantly killed by an ex-
plOsiOn on the 10th in a saw-mili at 1ilton,
Ga
JUDGE J. T. TREMBLE and James A. Ram
sey, prominent citizens of Farmersville,
Ky, shot each other dead on the 10th dur
inc n uuarrel